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Foreign Ministry of Israel declares UN expert persona non grata

Israel, Jerusalem, Dec. 15 /corr. Trend A.Gut / Israel did not allow Richard Falk, United Nations human rights inquiry expert
for the Palestinian territories, to enter into the country. The
professor of international law Richard Falk landed in Israel last evening. This was his first official visit to Israel from the moment of
appointment to the post in the United Nations in the end of March this year.

Falk intended to enter Gaza Strip
directly from the airport to devise a report on violations of the rights of the
Palestinians in the conditions of "economic blockade". He was delayed
in the passport control in the International Ben-Gurion Airport and in several
hours, was evicted from the country. He was deported from the Ben-Gurion Airport after the Foreign Ministry of Israel declared him persona non grata several months
ago.

The Foreign Ministry said that
"Israel clearly stated that it does not intend to greet Falk in its land
as the special rapporteur on human rights". The Ministry states that that
the views of the rapporteur are politicized and preconceived, and he himself
justifies the terrorism of HAMAS, bringing unacceptable and insulting parallels
between the situations in the autonomy and the Holocaust.

To make a report on humanitarian
situation in the Palestinian territories, which he planned to present to United
Nations in March 2009, was the basic purpose of professor Falk's visit.

It should be mentioned that last
week Falk expressed the UN Human Rights Council that the blockade of Gaza is a military crime, which must be considered by the International Court of Justice
in the Hague.

A diplomatic source in Jerusalem noted that Richard Falk was returned, since he was declared "illegitimate
rapporteur". Israeli Foreign Ministry considers Richard Falk as
illegitimate and nonobjective, citing his comparisons with the Nazis, and he
compares the actions of Israel with the Holocaust.

The Press Secretary of the Foreign Ministry of Israel, Igal
Palmor, stated to the representatives of the foreign press that Richard Falk
"does not attempt to improve the situation with the human rights, but
instead of it, arrives with his ready conclusions, and certainly those
conclusions radically and systematically criticizes Israel and only Israel".